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Women at work in the Deuteronomistic history / Mercedes L. Garcia Bachmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garcia Bachmann, Mercedes L., author.
- Series:
- International voices in biblical studies ; number 4.
- International voices in biblical studies : Society of Biblical Literature ; number 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Deuteronomy--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Women--Employment--Biblical teaching.
- Women.
- Women in the Bible.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (430 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A thorough study of the socio-economic and literary contexts of women in the Deuteronomistic History Mercedes L. García Bachmann examines the key texts in the Deuteronomistic History that mention women in service occupations: slaves and dependents, cooks, wet nurses, childcare givers, prostitutes, and scribes. The mostly anonymous women who performed this work for others are sometimes mentioned only in a single verse. Consequently, they often are as unrecognized in modern scholarship as they seem in the biblical text. García Bachmann shows that these women were honored not in relation to matters such as sexual purity or marital faithfulness but on account of the valuable service that they provided. A close examination of unnamed women A review of previous work in feminist, ancient Near Eastern, biblical, and social-scientific studies Extensive coverage of Hebrew terms used for women workers
- Contents:
- An overview of female labor in the Hebrew Bible
- The challenge of studying working women
- Standing on the shoulders of our predecessors
- Society's conditions affecting women's lives in ancient Israel
- Female slaves and dependents, literal and ideological, in Israel
- Hide and seek: miscellaneous women
- Female workers related to the royal household
- Prostitutes or "sex workers"
- Reassessing the social location of female in DtrH.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-58983-756-8
- OCLC:
- 922968081
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